Will Tyler
Doctoral Researcher at Indiana University School of Medicine
Greater Indianapolis United States
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Top SchoolWill Tyler is a doctoral researcher in medical genetics with a foundation in computer science and mathematics and eight years of software engineering experience building scalable, production ML systems. He helped design and ship high-throughput feature computation and a 16 PB data warehouse migration at Amazon, applying statistical and probabilistic techniques to improve traffic modeling and feature telemetry. Equally comfortable in Java, Python, and front-end work, he has a track record of reducing estimation error for peak events and deprecating uninformative ML features through careful instrumentation. His open-source contributions to Biopython — including AlphaFold DB integration and a binaryCIF parser — bridge bioinformatics tooling and practical research needs. Now blending computational rigor with genetics research at Indiana University School of Medicine, he brings a rare mix of production engineering chops and domain-aware bioinformatics to translational projects. Colleagues describe him as intellectually curious and relentlessly pragmatic, often solving research problems by shipping the small, reliable tools others overlook.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human/Medical Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human/Medical Genetics at Indiana University School of MedicineBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Purdue University
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Github Skills (17)
python10
biopython10
bioinformatics10
documentation10
apidoc9
sequence-alignment9
api9
pdb8
collections6
swift6
macos6
textfield6
uilabel6
cocoa6
collectionview6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
biopython/biopython
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Software Engineer (Bioinformatics)
Technical Writer & Software Engineer (Bioinformatics)Contributions:26 reviews, 16 PRs, 75 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Will contributed to improving the Biopython documentation by updating the README and tutorial, enhancing the clarity and completeness of the resources. They also made code changes to the PDB module, including updating the PDB server and parallelizing download methods. Further contributions include adding a module to interact with the AlphaFold DB and implementing a binaryCIF parser, showcasing their involvement in expanding the library's functionality.
git-repositoryphylogeneticspythondnagenomics
willtyler98/SourceHub
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
SourceHub is the perfect iOS client for GitHub.
Contributions:41 PRs, 78 pushes, 27 branches in 1 month
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